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H-II launch vehicle: Engineer Arihiro Kanaya, 23, was conducting a high pressure endurance test on a pipe used in the first stage rocket engine of the H-2 (H-II) launch vehicle when it exploded. The explosion caused a 14 cm (5.5 in) thick door in the testing room to fall on Kanaya and fracture his skull, killing him.
The Buran orbiters were similar in design to the U.S. Space Shuttle. [3] Buran completed one uncrewed spaceflight in 1988, and was destroyed in 2002 due to the collapse of its storage hangar. [4] The Buran-class orbiters used the expendable Energia rocket, a class of super heavy-lift launch vehicle. Besides describing the first operational ...
The failed launch wasn't critical for supplies and maintenance of the station. [44] The failure was traced to several possible issues with the turbopump of RD-0110 engine on the third stage, which in turn caused failure of the oxidizer tank. [45] As a result, Progress MS-05 was delayed by three weeks to replace third stage engines on its launch ...
Telemetry from the Starship froze just more than 8 minutes after launch from Texas, moments after engines began shutting down. SpaceX's Starship spacecraft destroyed in mega rocket launch Skip to ...
Due to the 2011 retirement of the American Space Shuttle and the need for STS-type craft in the meantime to complete the International Space Station, some American and Russian scientists had been mulling over plans to possibly revive the already-existing Buran shuttles in the Buran programme rather than spend money on an entirely new craft and ...
The uncrewed Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first flight launch of 2025 that blasted off from south Texas. SpaceX's Starship spacecraft is apparently destroyed after ...
Ukraine says both vessels sank in Crimean bay – the Akula straight away and the Serna after Russian attempts to save it Two Russian landing boats filled with armoured vehicles destroyed by ...
1969: five sailors on a Japanese ship were injured when space debris from what was believed to be a Soviet spacecraft struck the deck of their boat. [4]1978: the Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reentered the atmosphere over northwest Canada and scattered radioactive debris over northern Canada, some landing in the Great Slave Lake.